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pretypify

pretypify verb: to prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.

Verb

pretypify (third-person singular simple present pretypifies, present participle pretypifying, simple past and past participle pretypified)

  1. To prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.
    • That the promised Messias was to sit at the right hand of God , was both pretypified and foretold1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed

Forms of pretypify

third-person singular presentpretypifies
present participlepretypifying
past participlepretypified
pastpretypified

Origin of pretypify

From pre- + typify.

Questions about pretypify

What does pretypify mean?
Pretypify means to prefigure; to exhibit previously in a type.
What part of speech is pretypify?
Pretypify is a verb.
What is the past tense of pretypify?
The past tense of pretypify is pretypified.

Words near pretypify in the dictionary

  1. pretyped
  2. pretypes
  3. pretyphoid
  4. pretypified
  5. pretypifies
  6. pretypify
  7. pretypifying
  8. pretyping
  9. pretypographical
  10. pretyrannical
  11. pretyrosine

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